Sr. Cloud Engineer

CGI Federal is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to support cloud architecture deployment optimization and sustainment activities within a major federal modernization program. This role ensures secure scalable and high-performance cloud environments that support application data migration and DevSecOps operations. The Senior Cloud Engineer collaborates with Full Stack Engineers Data Engineers DevSecOps teams QA Automation and Product teams to build and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure aligned with mission-critical requirements.

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

Design build and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and data pipelines

Implement cloud-native services compute configurations load balancing and storage solutions

Support modernization and migration of legacy workloads into cloud environments

Ensure cloud deployments meet performance scalability and availability targets

Infrastructure Automation & DevSecOps Support

Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform CloudFormation or similar tooling

Support CI/CD integration and automation for application and infrastructure deployments

Implement monitoring logging observability and automated alerting

Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to maintain secure deployment pipelines

Security & Compliance

Implement cloud security controls including IAM policies encryption network segmentation and auditing

Ensure adherence to federal security standards within cloud environments

Support vulnerability mitigation patching hardening and continuous compliance activities

Troubleshooting & Optimization

Diagnose issues related to cloud resources network configurations deployments and integrations

Perform root-cause analysis on cloud performance degradations or service interruptions

Work closely with development testing and migration teams to address cloud-related issues

Collaboration & Agile Delivery

Participate in sprint planning backlog refinement and technical design discussions

Provide technical guidance to engineering teams and support cloud adoption best practices

Coordinate cloud activities across development migration testing and operations workstreams

Documentation & Reporting

Prepare technical documentation including architecture diagrams configuration details SOPs and runbooks

Provide updates on cloud performance incidents and optimization activities

Maintain documentation supporting audits and operational continuity

Must have an Active Top Secret Security Clearance

U.S. Citizenship

Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience in cloud engineering cloud operations or infrastructure engineering

Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (compute storage networking security automation)

Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation tools

Proficiency in cloud networking VPC design routing security groups and load balancing

Strong troubleshooting documentation and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting federal modernization or national-security programs

Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)

Familiarity with microservices distributed systems and cloud-native architectures

Scripting experience (Python Bash PowerShell)

Experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in cloud environments

Due to the nature of this government contract US Citizenship is required.

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